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Books and Periodicals

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Books


Christine Ammer. Unsung: A History of Women in American Music. Greenwood Press: Westport, 1980 buy
Annals of the Metropolitan Opera
Benser & Urrows. Randall Thompson: A Bio-Bibliography.
Greenwood Press 1991. buy
Bloomfield, Arthur. 50 Years of the San Francisco Opera. San Francisco Book Co.: San Francisco, 1972
Paul Bowles. The Sheltering Sky (novel). Ecco 1998. buy
Norbert Carnovale. Gunther Schuller: A Bio-Bibliography.
Greenwood Publishing 1987. buy
Eaton, Quaintance, The Boston Opera Company: The Story of a Unique Musical Institution. Appleton-Century: New York, 1965
Ewen, David, The New Encyclopedia of the Opera. Hill and Wang: New York, 1971
No image available Robert J. Garofalo. Frederick Shepherd Converse (1871-1940): his life and music. Composers of North America, No. 14.
Hardcover: Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ, 1994 buy
Hamilton, David, ed., The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia. Simon and Schuster: New York, 1987
No image available Hipsher, Edward Ellsworth, American Opera and its Composers.
Hardcover. Da Capo: New York, 1978 buy
Hobson & Richardson. Ulysses Kay: A Bio-Bibliography.
Greenwood Press 1994. buy
Howard, John Tasker Our American Music. Thomas Y. Crowell: New York, 1965
Elise K. Kirk. American Opera.
Hardcover: University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago 2001. buy
No image available Maisel, Edward, Charles T. Griffes: The Life of an American Composer.
Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1984 buy
Gian Carlo Menotti. Amahl and the Night Visitors. Storybook based on the opera.
William Morrow 1986. buy
No image available Andrea Olmstead, ed. The Correspondence of Roger Sessions.
Northeastern University Press 1997 (hardcover). buy
Orrey, Leslie, ed., The Encyclopedia of Opera. Scribner: 1976
Frederik Prausnitz. Roger Sessions: How a Difficult Composer Got That Way.
Oxford University Press 2002. buy
Ross, Anne, ed., The Opera Dictionary. Sterling: New York, 1961
Sadie, Stanley, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Peter Schickele. The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, 1807-1742.
Paperback: Random House 1998. buy
Schleifer, Martha Furman, William Wallace Gilchrist (1846-1916): A Moving Force in the Musical Life of Philadelphia. Scarecrow Press: Metuchen, NJ, 1985
No image available Gunther Schuller. Musings: The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller.
Paperback: Da Capo 1999. buy
Paperback: Oxford U. Pr. 1989.
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Hardcover: Oxford U. Pr. 1986.
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No image available Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays.
Paperback: Princeton University Press 1979. buy
Hardcover: Princeton University Press 1979. buy
Solin, Arthur, with Frank Merkling, John W. Freeman, and Gerald Fitzgerald. The Golden Horseshoe: The Life and Times of the Metropolitan Opera House. Viking: New York, 1965
Still, Dabrishus, & Quin. William Grant Still: A Bio-Bibliography.
Greenwood Publishing 1996. buy
Struble, John Warthen, The History of American Classical Music. Facts On File, Inc.: 1995
Thomson, Virgil, American Music since 1910. Holt, Rinehart & Winston: San Francisco, 1971

Periodicals


Opera News: various articles and features. buy
The Economist: various articles. buy